about ANT

The ANT Lab is a research group spanning
several departments at
the University of Southern California (USC),
including USC/Information Sciences Institute,
USC/Computer Science,
USC/Electrical Engineering,
USC/Information Technology Services,
Colorado State University’s
Computer Science Department,
and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
(See our people page for more.)

Our goal is to improve the Internet
by discovering new ways to understand network topology, traffic, use and abuse.
We address important problems in networking and cybersecurity from several
perspectives:

science:
how big is the Internet? how stable is it? who uses it? where?

applications: what data drives security research?
how do we balance data privacy and utility?

engineering:
what is tomorrow’s critical infrastructure?
how can research influence it?